Hose supporter



June 18, 1935. HAWIE HOSE SUPPORTER Filed March 11, 1955 Patented June id, i935 OFFICE Application March ll,

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The present invention pertains to improvements inhose supporters and more particularly to improvements in the hose supporter disclosed in my Patent No. 1,426,636, dated August 22nd, 1922. In that patent the attaching means is made entirely of rubber, which is very costly when the price of rubber is high. Therefore the primary purpose of the present invention is to provide attaching means having the superior characteristics of the patented structure but which may be manufactured at considerably less expense.

Heretofore it has also been proposed to make the attaching means as a laminated structure in which the rubber tab is backed by flexible textile material but in such a structure, one must not only use about the same amount of rubber as is provided in the rubber tab of the patent, but the rubber must be vulcanized to the backing throughout the length of the tab.

A further object of my invention is to eliminate the disadvantages of the laminated structure and to provide atab having greater flexibility than the prior structures and one comprising materially less rubber and necessitating considerably reduced vulcanizing.

With the foregoing objects outlined and with other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in the novel features hereinafter described in detail, 11-

lustrated in the accompanying drawing andmore particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawing.

Fig. 1 is a front View of a portion of a hose supporter showing an embodiment of my invention.

Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same, partially in vertical section, the section being taken along the line 22 in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a view like the sectional part in Fig. 2, but illustrating a modification.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the preferred form of the improved tab.

Fig. 5 is a similar view of the modified form of tab.

Fig. 6 is a plan view of a piece of stock from which the improved tabs are made.

Referring first to Fig. 6, it will be observed that a piece of textile tape l is provided at regular spaced intervals with rubber buttons 8 and transversely disposed rubber abutments 9 which parts are secured to the tape by vulcanization.

After the stock has been manufactured in this way it is severed along the lines it! to provide tabs l i shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 4, and it will be observed that each such tabs consists of a length of flexible tape provided at one end with an abutment 9 of triangular cross-section and at its other end with a button 8. Such a tab may be readily attached to a metal loop or frame 92 having c0n== ventional cross-bars l3 and. id at its upper end;

1935, Serial No. M516 the cross-bar it being connected to the usual loop I5 which joins the attaching means to the webbing it of the hose supporter. In assembling the tab and metal loop, the abutment 9 can be threaded through the space between the cross-bars l3 and Hi and then the thickest end of the abutment will bear against the bar It to prevent accidental withdrawal of the abutment between the bars. of course, the button 8 cooperates with the contracted portion l of the metal loop in the usual way.

In some cases I may eleminate the abutments 9 from the tab and leave the upper end Id of the tab bare as shown inFig. 5, and in such case the tab can be attached to the rigid loop member by folding the upper end portionof the tape about the bars 99 of the loop members and sewing the tape in place as shown at 26.

In reference to the advantages of the new construction over the old, it will be noted that the tab is more flexible than the ones heretofore known and the abutment and button are vulcanized to the tape only at the ends of the latter. This reduces the cost to about half that of the older articles. Furthermore, due to the present constructioma machine has been developed to take a roll of tape and mold the rubber parts on automatically eliminating all waste and effecting a great saving, while in my patented article, the tabs had to be molded in sheets, with or without cloth on the back, and blanked out. The new construction provides a tab of better quality at lower cost and one which is more practicable in actual use.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

l. Attaching means for a hose supporter comprising a rigid loop member and a flexible tab member cooperable therewith, said tab member consisting of a piece of flexible textile tape provided at one end with a transverse rubber abutment having interlocking connection with the upper portion of the loop and provided at its opposite end with a rubber button adapted to interlock with the lower portion of the loop member, the button and abutment being secured to the tape and being connected together, by the tape only.

2. In hose attaching means, a flexible tab member consisting of a piece of textile tape provided at one end with a rubber button and at its opposite end with a rubber abutment having a transverse shoulder to provide means for interlocking the tab with a loop member, the button and abutment being secured to the tape by vulcanization and being connected to one another by said tape only.

MICHAEL HAWIE. 

